EU’S BORRELL: GAZA FAMINE MAN-MADE, LET AID IN!

EU’S BORRELL: GAZA FAMINE MAN-MADE, LET AID IN!

The EU’s foreign policy chief is urging action over the famine in Gaza. Josep Borrell has admitted the hunger crisis is man-made - pointing to the many aid trucks stuck at the border, waiting to be let in.

Over a million Palestinians in Gaza - half the Strip’s population - face food insecurity, according to The World Food Programme and the World Health Organization, while Human Rights Watch says Israel is illegally using starvation as a weapon of war.

While he’s finally making the right noises, Borrell appears unaware of the extent to which Europe, whose foreign policy he represents, is responsible for for the situation in Gaza, given the material support EU members have given to Tel Aviv, not just now but over the years. Nicaragua, for example, recently filed a case against Germany at the International Court of Justice, accusing Berlin of “facilitating Israeli genocide” in Gaza.

It was Borrell, of course, who infamously referred to Europe as a ‘garden’ and much of the rest of the world as a ‘jungle’ - a remark that’s not just racist, but willfully ignores the role European colonial plunder had in the region’s prosperity and industrialisation. That kind of language also mirrors talk of Israel as “a villa in a jungle” touted by some Israeli politicians, which clearly seeks to dehumanise Palestinians.

What do you think? Has the penny finally dropped for Borrell and co.? Or is this just another self-serving, too-little-too-late political expediency?